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Examination or observation of what is outside oneself.

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  • All these examples show that the clearly defined characteristics into which it is sought to divide extrospection and introspection do not exist.
  • We shall then consider the two great directions of interest, introspection and extrospection, and those whose lives are characterized by one or the other direction.
  • These two words introspection and extrospection admirably convey the difference in the manner of thinking between those who from preference look, and those who from...
  • Psychology, it has also been said, has as its instrument introspection, while the natural sciences work with the eye, the touch, the ear -- that is to say, with the senses of...
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